- Title
- Rural internet connectivity: a development in Dwesa-Cwebe, Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Mandioma, Martin
- Subject
- Internet -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc (Computer Science)
- Identifier
- vital:11376
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/78
- Identifier
- Internet -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description
- This thesis presents aspects of Internet connectivity in rural South Africa. The work looks at government initiatives being undertaken to connect rural communities to up-to-date information networks. Various projects that seek to connect rural areas of South Africa, as well as other remote areas around the world, are discussed. These projects present many novel ideas that have been successfully used to link rural communities in remote areas with the information age. In particular, wired and wireless access technologies that can be implemented to connect remote communities to the Internet are discussed. A field test utilizing GPRS, VSAT and WiMAX was implemented in Dwesa-Cwebe, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. VSAT proved to offer better Internet connectivity in terms of throughput and latency. WiMAX was then successfully implemented to relay the signal over the remote area of Dwesa-Cwebe, thus effectively providing Internet connectivity to an area with limited cell phone coverage and no telephone lines.
- Format
- 164 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science & Agriculture
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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